Today's NY Times includes a list of the mostnotable deaths from the past year, and while women only constitute about 17% of the list, what they lack in numbers the ladies mentioned make up for in spunk and glitter. The Jezeverse is considerably less festive now that Slut Machine's favorite televised trainwreck, Anna…

Elizabeth Hardwick, the literary critic, novelist and co-founder of the New York Review of Bookspassed away on Sunday at the age of 91. She hung out with Billie Holiday in the 40s and lived the NYC Bohemian life, as Hardwick described it, full of "love and alcohol and the clothes on the floor." Hardwick is also known…